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If you only see a young child once a year, odds are pretty good when you meet up with the little tyke on your annual visit you’ll say something along the lines of, “My, how you’re grown.” The same holds true for Grand Point North, the festival organized by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals that returns to Waterfront Park in Burlington for its third year.

GPN the band is a Vermont-born rock quintet, of course, so it makes sense that GPN the festival would have a healthy dose of music when it gets in gear Saturday and Sunday. But the festival’s expansion has more to do with non-musical entertainment and off-site music than with the sounds that can be heard this weekend on the shores of Lake Champlain.

First, the new stuff:

• “Grand Point Weird” features art installations curated by someone near and dear to Potter’s heart – her sister and fellow Mad River Valley native, Charlotte Potter, who’s glass studio manager at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va.

• Following the Saturday show at Waterfront Park there will be an after-party gig at 11:30 p.m. at Nectar’s with the funk-driven trio The Stepkids, plus opener Ice Cream. $10-$15. 658-4771, www.liveatnectars.com.

• After that after-party there’s another after-party at 11:30 p.m. Sunday. That’s when “Grand Point Dead” happens in the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington, with a house band including guitarist Benny Yurco and drummer Matt Burr of the Nocturnals playing Grateful Dead tunes. They’ll be joined by guests such as Grace Potter and her band’s other guitarist, Scott Tournet, as well as guitar hero Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule. $20 in advance, $25 day of show. 652-0777, www.highergroundmusic.com.

• This isn’t totally new, but it’s only the second year that the waterfront eatery The Skinny Pancake will oversee the festival’s celebration of local food that’ll also feature Duino Duende, Kettle Corn, Open Hearth Pizza and the Vermont Yak Co.

Oh, yeah, and the raison d’etre for Grand Point North, the music at Waterfront Park:

• 3 p.m. Saturday, the gates open with music throughout the day from Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, The Felice Brothers and a host of Vermont acts: Ludlow native Scott Tournet, the Nocturnals’ guitarist, plus Josh Panda and the Hot Damned, Alpenglow, Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band and The DuPont Brothers. (Look for a video featuring music by and an interview with the members of Alpenglow at www.burlingtonfreepress.com.)